Monday 27 April 2015

Plenty more artwork to come and writing too!

Candice here! :)

I've been busy doing art and creating a large backlog of artwork to upload.  This is so I can spend the next couple of months writing with no distractions.  I really need to get this book done so I can hopefully have five books done overall by the end of the year.  Of course the business will definitely be up and running long before I start publishing them.  I'm hoping to have ten rough drafts complete by the time I've finished with the writing course.

As for my art.  I'm hoping to do more traditional art.  I've started doing paintings and have already done one.  I work with acrylic painting and am finding these is lots to learn.  I'll also be doing more drawings.  Eventually I'll be selling the originals, although not for a while yet.

Damian has been very busy doing art too.  At the moment he has been focusing on realism rather than abstract.  His realism seems to be getting better every time he does a picture.  He works with graphite and has been drawing a lot of animals and a few illustrations as well.  I love his realistic style as it has a real sketchy feel to it.

I'm also hoping that we will have the business up and running in the next few months.  We are thinking of offering lessons in portraiture as well with both me and my husband teaching.  But first I have to design the course.  I'm going to pick up where I left off last time with it, so I've already got something to work with.

Anyway, that's all for now :) 

Sunday 19 April 2015

Art merge

Candice here :)

As you would have observed already.  Me and Damian have merged both our art onto my website.  We did this because it's hard to run the business with two separate sites.  However I'll be the one doing the blog entries, unless of course that changes in the future.  We hoping to have the business up and running in a minimum of two months time.  Damian is working full time on the business in getting it started.  I'm also helping when I'm not writing.

I'm really enjoying doing fairy piggy art.  I do really like piggies, as they are my favourite animal.  I've also noticed that there is very little pig art on the internet, so maybe I've found my niche with that.  I'm planning to do a piggy painting soon and am a little nervous about how it will turn out because it has been so long since I last painted.

This week I'm intending to do a lot of writing.  I really need to get moving with the writing if I'm to finish the book in the next couple of months.  So far, I'm a quarter of the way through it.  The Frozen Danastri is an interesting book.  There is the threat of eternal winter in it.  I'm finding that the cold can be interesting to write about, after all snow is fairly pretty right?  It seems to give the book a more magical feel.

Damian's art seems to be going well.  At the moment he is working on a picture of a steam punk horse and implied that he may be doing more steam punk style works.  At the moment he has been adding shading to his newer works and working with pencil more than pen.  He has sometimes been blending a bit of realism with his digital abstract work.  

Anyway, that's the update for today. :)

Thursday 9 April 2015

Hopefully starting the business soon!

I didn't update for a month and sorry about that.  I'm hoping that me and my husband will be able to sell art soon.  In maybe a few months time.  We will hopefully be adding an Etsy store and a store for digital downloads.  The art will feature our illustrations of my novels, my piggy art and my husband's animals and flowers.  Unfortunately the books are still a way off being published.  My husband Damian decided that he isn't going to be doing writing after all and is going to devote his time to making products.  This will free up more time for writing for me, which is both good news and bad news.

I'll be spending a lot of time writing over the next few months, so keep watching the word count ticker.  I'm still working on The Frozen Danastri and things seem to be going well with it.  I'm hoping to have it finished before July.  If I work hard at it then I'll be able to get it finished.  Hopefully there isn't any disruptions to my writing.

I've finally decided on a direction I want my art to take.  I'm focusing on doing illustrations again as well as doing fairy piggies.  I've discontinued the fairy cats and fairies.  I want to focus on art that I enjoy doing the most.  Soon I'll be uploading another illustration and another piggy picture.  This time the piggy will be a realistic one and it is mostly finished.  I'm working in a variety of mediums these days with digital, graphite and acrylic paint.  Not sure how well the painting will go because I haven't done it in years.

Anyway, this was a long overdue update. :)